Dorothy Rothschild Parker
Dorothy Rothschild Parker
Dorothy Parkerwas an American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks and eye for 20th-century urban foibles...
artists authors
Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much
emotions runs
She (Katherine Hepburn) runs the gamut of emotions from A to B
barely few hat lay room small
It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.
attended game girls laid surprised
If all the girls who attended the Harvard-Yale game were laid end to end, I wouldn't be surprised
gentle mine room sit writers wrote
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
autumn hate summer
Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
yorkers
As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
scratch
Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.
eggs putting serves
It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
clutch darts fingers leave love open
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
days floor looking poor rolling sucker three
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
four wiser
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
exceed man people
People Who Do things, exceed my endurance;/ God, for a man that solicits insurance!
require ruthless three
I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.